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Abstracts tagged "obesity"

  • Abstract Number: 0583 • ACR Convergence 2021

    Obesity and Lower Socioeconomic Position Are Independently Associated with Incident Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    Rozemarijn Witkam1, James Gwinnutt1, Jennifer Humphreys1, Rachel Cooper2, David Selby1 and Suzanne Verstappen3, 1University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom, 3School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Background/Purpose: Obesity is a known risk factor for OA and hypothesised as a risk factor for RA, although due to different underlying mechanisms. Lower socioeconomic…
  • Abstract Number: 0789 • ACR Convergence 2021

    Adipokine Levels and Associations with Achievement of Low Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Joshua Baker1, Bryant England2, Michael George1, Katherine Wysham3, Gail Kerr4, Andreas Reimold5, Paul Monach6, Gary Kunkel7, Brian Sauer7, Bartlett Hamilton8, Carlos Hunter2, Michael Duryee2, Geoffrey Thiele2 and Ted Mikuls2, 1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 3VA Puget Sound/University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 4Washington D.C., Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC)/Georgetown and Howard Universities, Washington, DC, 5University of Texas – Southwestern Medical Center/Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), Dallas, TX, 6Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 7University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 8University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE

    Background/Purpose: Adipokines are fat-secreted proteins that serve as metabolic regulators. Prior studies have identified associations between adipokines and disease characteristics such as disease activity and…
  • Abstract Number: 0864 • ACR Convergence 2021

    Does Obesity Affect Disease Activity Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus?

    Konstantinos Tselios1, Dafna Gladman2, Jiandong Su3 and Murray Urowitz4, 1McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, 2Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 3University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, 4Center for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Lupus Clinic, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Background/Purpose: Increased Body Mass Index (BMI) affects cardiovascular risk and is related to worse health-related quality of life measures in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus…
  • Abstract Number: 1126 • ACR Convergence 2021

    Synovial Cell Dysfunction in Obese Patients May Contribute to Poor Outcomes in Knee Osteoarthritis

    Holly Philpott1, Trevor Birmingham2, Nicole Aye2, Benoit Fiset3, Logan Walsh3, Brent Lanting2 and Tom Appleton2, 1Western University, London, ON, Canada, 2University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, 3McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Background/Purpose: Obesity is a major risk factor for poor outcomes in knee osteoarthritis (OA) and may involve both mechanical and physiological stresses on joint tissues.…
  • Abstract Number: 1129 • ACR Convergence 2021

    Cost-effectiveness of Weight Loss Interventions Prior to Total Knee Replacement for Patients with Advanced Knee Osteoarthritis and Class III Obesity

    Aleksandra Kostic1, Valia Leifer2, Tuhina Neogi3, David Hunter4, Lisa Suter5, Faith Selzer6, Jeffrey Katz1 and Elena Losina7, 1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brookline, MA, 2The Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research (OrACORe) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 3Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 4Institute of Bone and Joint Research, University of Sydney, St Leonards, Australia, 5Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 6Brigham and Women's Hospital, Amesbury, MA, 7Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

    Background/Purpose: Class III obesity, defined by BMI >40kg/m2, is linked to increased risk of complications post total knee replacement (TKR). This has led to recommendations…
  • Abstract Number: 1320 • ACR Convergence 2021

    Obesity and Its Associations with Clinical Manifestations and Disease Burden of Patients with Spondyloarthritis: An Ancillary Study from the ASAS-perSpA Project

    Mehmet Tuncay Duruoz1, Sevtap Acer Kasman2, Halise Hande Gezer1, Clementina López Medina3 and Maxime Dougados4, 1Marmara University School of Medicine, PMR Department, Rheumatology Division, Istanbul, Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey, 2Marmara University School of Medicine, PMR Department, Rheumatology Division, Istanbul, Turkey, 3Department of Rheumatology, Reina Sofia Hospital, IMIBIC, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain/ Department of Rheumatology, University of Paris, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, 4Université de Paris . Department of Rheumatology - Hôpital Cochin. Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris . INSERM (U1153): Clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, PRES Sorbonne Paris-Cité. Paris, France., Paris, France

    Background/Purpose: Obese patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA) had more functional limitations, higher subjective disease activity, fewer benefits of exercise, and showed less response to drug therapy.…
  • Abstract Number: 1656 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Knee OA Outcomes in Patients with Severe Obesity Following Bariatric Surgery or Total Knee Arthroplasty

    Jonathan Samuels1, Stephen Zak2, Ran Schwarzkopf2, Christine Ren-Fielding3, Manish Parikh4, Alex McLawhorn5, James Browne6, Peter Hallowell7, Brian Irving8, Craig Wood9, Christopher Still9 and Peter Benotti9, 1NYU Langone, Rye Brook, NY, 2NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, 3NYU Langone Health, New YOrk, 4Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY, 5Hospital for Special Surgeyr, New York, 6University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 7University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 8Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,, LA, 9Obesity institute at Geisinger, Danville

    Background/Purpose: High body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) is a modifiable risk factor that has been associated with the development and progression of osteoarthritis (OA) and…
  • Abstract Number: 1658 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Mediation of the Association Between Obesity and Osteoarthritis by Blood Pressure, Arterial Stiffness, and Subclinical Atherosclerosis

    Marieke Loef1, Rob van der Geest1, Hildo Lamb1, Renée de Mutsert1, Frits Rosendaal1 and Margreet Kloppenburg1, 1Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

    Background/Purpose: Obesity-related metabolic dysregulation may lead to atherosclerotic vascular changes. It has been hypothesized that a compromised blood flow may cause detrimental changes to the…
  • Abstract Number: 1746 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Association of Obesity with Treatment Response to Methotrexate or Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Dilli Poudel1, Ted Mikuls2, Michael George1, Bryant England2, Grant Cannon3, Brian Sauer4 and Joshua Baker1, 1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 3Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 4University of Utah, Omaha, NE

    Background/Purpose: Obesity affects 30-40% of RA patients and is associated with higher clinical disease activity measures and progressive disability. Studies suggest that obesity may be…
  • Abstract Number: 1883 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Exercise Partially Explains the Impact of Body Mass Index on Disease Activity in Ankylosing Spondylitis

    Jean Liew1, Milena Gianfrancesco2, Susan Heckbert1 and Lianne Gensler3, 1University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 3University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    Background/Purpose: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients have elevated cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality compared to general population comparators of the same age and sex. Although obesity…
  • Abstract Number: 1915 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Leptin Plays a Critical Role in Modulating Dermal Adipose Tissue, Inflammation and Skin Fibrosis

    Roberta Goncalves Marangoni1, Stacey Duemmel2, Marc Nuzzo2, Christopher Ritchlin3 and Benjamin Korman3, 1University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 2Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, 3Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

    Background/Purpose: We previously demonstrated that systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients have substantial reduction in dermal white adipose tissue (dWAT) which correlates with skin fibrosis. In animal…
  • Abstract Number: 0139 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data (RAPID) 3 as a Predictor of Weight Reduction in Rheumatology Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery

    John Byun1, Meenakshi Jolly2, Todd Beck1 and Sobia Hassan2, 1Rush University, Chicago, 2Rush University, Chicago, IL

    Background/Purpose: Obesity is associated with higher disease activity in many rheumatologic diseases with evidence of improvement following bariatric surgery. Despite the impressive average weight loss…
  • Abstract Number: 1960 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Cost-effectiveness of Surgical and Non-Surgical Weight Loss Programs for Morbidly Obese Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis

    Valia Leifer1, Jeffrey Katz2, Faith Selzer3, Tuhina Neogi4, Jamie Collins5 and Elena Losina2, 1The Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research (OrACORe) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, 2Harvard Medical School / The Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research (OrACORe) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 3The Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research (OrACORe) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Amesbury, MA, 4Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 5The Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research (OrACORe) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

    Background/Purpose: Growing numbers of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients are morbidly obese (BMI ≥ 35 kg/m2). Evolving evidence suggests weight reduction may delay the structural progression…
  • Abstract Number: 0485 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Non-obese Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients with Low Low-density Lipoprotein Have Higher Coronary Atherosclerosis Burden, Greater Plaque Progression and Cardiovascular Event Risk

    George Karpouzas1, Sarah Ormseth1, Elizabeth Hernandez1 and Matthew Budoff1, 1Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and the Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA

    Background/Purpose: RA patients with low body weight incur higher mortality than obese patients. Paradoxically, RA patients in the lowest low-density lipoprotein group (LDL < 70…
  • Abstract Number: 0552 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Fast Food Habits and Serum Urate Change in Young Adults: 15-Year Prospective Cohort Analysis

    Chio Yokose1, Na Lu2, Natalie McCormick1, John Choi3, Yuqing Zhang4 and Hyon Choi5, 1Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 4Massachusetts General Hospital, Quincy, MA, 5Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Lexington, MA

    Background/Purpose: Fast food consumption has strong positive associations with weight gain and insulin resistance. Obesity and insulin resistance are, in turn, strongly associated with elevated…
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